Many Kansas Schools Postpone Opening Amid Poliomyelitis Threat
Topeka reports a wide school shutdown as infantile paralysis cases rise. Health officials urge postponement of public and parochial openings while monitoring the poliomyelitis situation. Several counties and cities including Sedgwick Johnson Leavenworth Shawnee Franklin Crawford Chautauqua Riley close schools. Kansas City Kansas Catholic schools dismiss early. others like Fort Scott and Emporia announce or consider openings based on local conditions.
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Topeka
Kansas
F. P. Helm
State Board of Health
C. H. Kirmaman
Helm
Kinnaman
Sedgwick
Johnson
Atchison
Leavenworth
Shawnee
Franklin
Crawford
Chautauqua
Riley
Fort Scott
Arkansas
Coffeyville
E. 0. Squire
Supt
K. W. McFarland
John Turner
Sedgwick County
E. G.lightfoot
Crawford County
Geary
Pittsburgh
J. Kinnaman
Michigan
Iowa
Indiana
Montgomery County
Riley County
Hunters Island
Manhattan
Rees
H. Hughes
Parsons
Kansas City
Kan
H. W. Kassel
Paul .C. ‘Schulte
Bonner Springs
Wyandotte County
Emporia
Lyon County
British Bomb Wide Areas Across Europe
Targets from Norway to Italy were attacked yesterday and last night by new air squadrons. Heavy blows struck at a power plant in Genoa and dynamite works near Cologne, plus shelling along the French coast as announced tonight.
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London
Norway
Italy
Pew Sater
Ae Army
Genoa
Cologne
Emmie Serpent
A W Robinson LaCrosse Newspaper Man Dies
A W Robinson 89 longtime Kansas journalist and publisher of the LaCrosse Republican died after an operation. He came to Kansas in 1861 from Pennsylvania and led several papers including the Marion Record Winchester Argus Valley Falls New Era and Cawker City News before moving to LaCrosse in 1907. Survivors include wife three sons Paul Clyde L L Robinson and a daughter Emma dora Wellman. Funeral services set for Thursday in LaCrosse.
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LaCrosse
Kan
A. W. Robinson
L. L. Robinson
LaCrosse’ Republican
Robinson
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Topeka
Marion
Winchester
Valley
Falla
New Era
la Crosse
Paul Robinson
Portland
Ore
Clyde Robinson
Shawnee
Okla
Emmadora Wellman
Local Rain Totals and Lumber Yard Opening in Lawrence
In Lawrence the rainfall reached .62 inch by 7 am, while September normals stand at 4.07 inches. John Brand caught a record crappie at Lone Star lake, measuring 18 inches long and nearly six inches deep. Trucks have poured into the 19th and Massachusetts lumber yard as Pete Reedy unveils the new Reedy Lumber Co, successor to South Lawrence Lumber. Pete, a KU football alum and former manager at Logan Moore Lumber, serves in the opening remarks.
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Lone Star Lake
John Brand
19Th
Massachusetts
Howard
Pete” Reedy
Reedy Lumber Company
Reedy
South Lawrence Lumber Company
Pete
Lawrence
Kansas University
Logan-Moore Lumber Company
Corn Market Slacken In Lead Up To New Crop
The corn market shows a standstill as elevators brimful and a new crew nears. Prices range 60 to 62 cents for yellow and around 60 cents for white or mixed, with few transactions and forecasts of possible price adjustments when new grain arrives.
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Lawrence
Bases for ships and destroyers set for Britain allies
The United States offers 50 over-age destroyers to Britain in exchange for bases in Bermuda Bahamas Jamaica St Lucia Trinidad Antigua and British Guiana under a 99 year lease. Secretary Hull notes 50 ships to be delivered within a week after fueling and provisioning.
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Bahamas
Jamaica
St. Lucia
Trinidad
Antigua
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Newfoundland
Louisiana Purchase
Panama Canal
Central America
South America
Antilles
Canada
Mexico
United States
Naval Authority
Great Britain
Philadelphia
Y. Cea Lothian
St.Lucia
Gulf of Paria
Britain will not surrender its fleet to invasion
The United States released a wartime exchange showing Britain would not surrender or sink its fleet if waters around the Isles became untenable. Lord Lothian affirmed the policy, noting such contingencies concern Germany more than Britain, as Washington linked the pledge to a plan for destroying over-age destroyers.
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Jackson
United States
Atlantic
Great Britain
Washington
British Isles
State Department
Hull
Lord Lothian
White House
British Commonwealth
Isles
Births at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Two babies born today at Lawrence Memorial hospital a girl and a boy. Parents include Mr and Mrs George G Kirch hoff 1014 Vermont are the parents of a baby girl born this morning and Mr and Mrs Stewart Thurber of Richland are the parents of a baby boy born this afternoon.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
George G.‘ Kirchhoff
Vermont
Stewart. Thurber
Richland
London Defenses Repel Massive German Air Raid
The British fighter fleet clashed with a large German bomber and fighter force off the southeast coast. German planes were driven back and many were shot down as the raid failed to break London's defenses. The day marked the start of Britain’s second year of total war with new recruitment plans for a global Jewish army.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Germany
Messerschmitt ‘Whier
Encou
Messerschmitts
Boulogne
British Isles
Aly
Funeral services for H. B. Peairs 74
Death of H B Peairs 74 prompts funeral at First Methodist church tomorrow at 11. Dr Edward Hislop conducts with Rev Robert Hunt assisting. Burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Active pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers named including Dr A J Anderson and Dr W Q Nelson.
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H. B. Peairs
First Methodist Church
Edward Hislop
Methodist Church
Seventy- Fourth and
Broadway
Kansas City
Robert. A. Hunt
Oak Hill Cemetery
H. M. Chamney
G. Warren Spaulding
R. R. Mc
W. Q. Nelson
R. A. Schwegler, Jr
Weatherby
Germans React to US Transfer of Destroyers to Britain
Berlin reports cautious official reactions to the United States transfer of 50 destroyers to Britain. German authorities call for a thorough study of international law before forming a final attitude.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
Tahiti Backs Britain in World War Amid Pacific Conflict
Tahiti joins Britain in wartime effort as General Charles de Gaulle’s dissident French forces announce Tahiti will continue to fight alongside the Allies in the southern Pacific theater.
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Tahiti
Britain
London
Charles Deaulle
Pacific
Eudora Social News Highlights Family Visits and Meetings
Eudora residents host and visit relatives across Kansas and Missouri. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs. Raymond McQuist and daughter Julian of Ath ann, Mrs. Delbert Gerstenberex of Lawrence, and many extended family members at dinners, picnics, and church events. The Salems church Women’s missionary group and Strobel reunion crowd gather, while local youths attend a piano recital at Vinland high school.
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Raymond McQuist
Julian
Athann Oy
Douglas Harris
Jerry Harris
Mary Harris
McQuiston
San Francisco
Eudora
Ry Harti Rria
Delbert Gerstenberex
Lawrence
Charles Gersten
Boreet
Jacob Schellack
DeSoto
Gushnsack
James.Taylor
Topeka
Alice Ziegler
George Bartz
He Taylor
Janice Guenther
Kansas City
Allen Cochran
Walter McMillen
Wellsville
Chester McGuire
St. Louis
Bert Daugherty
Frances Erwin
Manhattan
Richard Erwin
Womans Missionary Society of the
Salems Church
Gideon Neil
Clarence Daugherty
Alfred Eisele
Delbert
Sublette
Harold Lowe
Patricia
Lenexa
M. H. Cox
Star
J. N. Hearin
Norman
Kenneth Rash
Thayer
Nancy Lee Bohnsack
Gus Bohnsack
George Hum
Weidensaidh
Marvin Pollard
Bobby
Charles Fisher
George Lothholz
Lothholz
D. M. Roberts
Bonna Terra
Firman Sweet and Son
Crystal City
Arthur Roberts
Joseph
William Hilmer
Eugene
Tonganoxie
Shirley Holmes
Frances Greiner
Maude Rolland
Keith Rolland
Curtis Ruthrauff
Methodist Church
State Lake
Eleanor Bartz
Alice Marie
Kindred
Benitta Bartz
Helen Ott
Edna Bond
Hazel Goodyear
Ona Mae Turner
Bryona Pence
Shirley Long
Barbara Johnson
Gladys Turner
Margaret Lorimer
Parkville
Ann Lorimer
C. B. Johnson
Dr. Johnson
Anna Vore
Lincoln
Neb
Will Stadler
Sherman
Roach
Frances Nichols
Otis Nichols
Eu dora recital closes term with music pupils
Mrs Ray Miller and family attended the Eu dora recital with pupils Beatrice Steffen Charline Edleb rook Gloria Harris Rosalene Seiwald Greta Kanzig Maxine Miller Maxine Westerhouse Geraldine Harris and Doris Gabriel The recital marked a successful term under Miss Remmington and some pupils plan fall lessons Others visited neighbors and relatives at Evening Star Lawrence and Gard ner with local families in attendance.
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Ray Miller
Amos Westerhouse
Pete Dlebrook
William Mercier
Gus Gabriel
Esther
Alvin Gabriel
Eudora
Beatrice Steffen
Charline Edlebrock
Gloria Harris
Rosalene Seiwald
Greta Kanzig
Maxine Miller
Maxine Westerhouse
Geraldine Harris
Doris Gabriel
Misa Remmington
Miss Remmington
Fred Moll
Martin Ables
Evening Star
Oto Spitzli
Lawrence
Ed Diedrich
Curtig Diedrich
June
Maxine
Sam Harrison
Gardner
Wheat and livestock markets rally on brief late session gains
Wheat futures closed near session highs as buying at Minneapolis and steady demand for September contracts supported gains. Corn and oats also firm while open interest and past week totals are noted. Kansas City hogs and cattle shows slow to strong activity with mixed price shifts across lots and weights.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Kansas City Livestock Prices and Market Snapshot
Weights 270 lbs hogs steady to firm 270 335 lbs. Grass steers mostly steady. cows weak. Grass slaughter steers 6.75 8.00. Spring lambs generally strong to 25 higher. Sheep bids mostly steady. Colorado spring lambs 9.25 9.10, natives down to 8.75, Texas 7.00 8.00. Odd lots slaughter ewes 3.75.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
AP U
Texas
D.A
Colorado
Estimated Alivestock Receipts for Tomorrow Kansas City
Officially estimated livestock receipts for tomorrow in Kansas City include cattle 7,000 calves 1,000 hogs 3,500 and sheep 6,000 as reported by AP USDA.
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Kansas City
USDA
Kansas City Cash Grain Market Update
Wheat ledger shows 79 cars with prices steady to 2 higher led by No 2 dark hard at 75 No 3 at 73 No 2 hard 73 74 No 3 14 No 2 red T4443 No 3 72 Sept Dec May closes at 70 71 70 1/2 Corn totals 94 cars slight rise No 2 white 65 66 No 3 64 65 No 2 yellow 64 64 No 3 63 64 Sept 63 Dec 57 May 57 Oats 6 cars steady No 2 white 28 14 30 15 No 3 27 29 Mile maize 1.11 1.18 Keaffir 1.10 1.17.
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Kansas City
Grain market quotations for Rye Barley and Wheat
The report lists Rye nom 41943 Barley nom 35648 No 1 hard and dark hard wheat 4 to 7 cents over September No 3 hard and dark hard 3 to 6% cents over No 1 ret grheat 5 to 4% over No red 4 to over No 2 white corn 3 to 3 over No 2 yellow corn 1% to 2% over No 3 mixed corn 1 to over
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Eptember
Market futures report with mixed grain and bean prices
Mixed futures data show soybean and corn contracts with various December and May figures. Wheat, rye, oats and livestock options appear with several recurring months and changing price points.
Chicago Potato Market Report Summary
Chicago potato market notes state prices for U.S. No 1 and washed varieties with Idaho Colorado Oregon Nebraska listings. Prices range from 1.40 to 1.67 per unit with quality described as generally good. Regions mentioned include Idaho Colorado Oregon Nebraska and Utah.
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Chicago
USDA
Kansas City Produce Kansas City Bent
Fragmentary text shows unclear scores and team names with several garbled terms. No coherent events, dates, or concrete entities readable for a reliable summary.
Local Markets Today Grain and Livestock Prices
Wheat 63 and yellow corn 60 per unit. Poultry prices: hens under 4 pounds 9, over 4 pounds 12, springers and broilers 11 13, roosters 4 5. Butterfat Nos 125 and 292. Egas straight runs 15. Hogs 7.00.
Wall Street Moves Mixed as Industrial Stocks Rally
In New York trading, industrial stocks led a modest recovery while meat shares lagged. Steel issues supported early gains as activity and prices rose, though later earnings were pared. bond volumes remained steady with Empire dollar loans up, and grains showed small shifts with cotton firming slightly.
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Wall Street
New York
Chicago
Did Diamond Jim Suffer Stomach Pains or Ulcers
A short note questions Diamond Jim Brady’s health and suggests Aden Tablets for stomach or ulcer pains indigestion gas heartburn bloat and related issues. The ad promises refund if not helped and lists Round Corner Drug Co. and general drugstores as retailers.
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Diamond Jim
Diamond Jim Brady
Round Corner Drug Co
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